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Irvine, California, Us

Elevate is a boutique product management advisory & consulting firm that provides expert services and solutions to businesses across industries.Our team of experienced consultants have a track record of delivering successful results across multiple verticals. We help businesses elevate their product management function to drive growth, innovation and customer satisfaction.Our tailored approach ensures that our clients receive the support they need to achieve their goals and overcome challenges. We work with businesses of all sizes and across industries, from start-ups to established enterprises.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Orchestrated and built a center of competency around pricing monetization, product commercialization, and led development of portfolio strategy to transform company from multi-product information security company to an intuitive Cybersecurity Platform. Lead team of programs managers, pricing analysts, and marketers to launch solutions and bundles, and worked collaborative with SVP of platform engineering and cross-portfolio experts to build roadmap for platform strategy.✔ Overachieved financial goals in Q1 and Q2 of 2023. Orchestrated cross-functional planning and execution of multiple cross-portfolio solutions, including go-to-market strategy of managed and unmanaged detection and response, and cloud and traditional security posture management solutions. Planned and coordinated cross-portfolio strategies and product marketing, amplifying customer value and accelerating land, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities.

New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded optimizing roadmap at Hearst Media to accelerate release of engagement and personalization capability across brands to incorporate Hearst Content Management and Publishing ecosystem into CDS platform and merge the Hearst and CDS Global Product Management teams into a single organization.✔ Championed concept and launch of disruptive B2B2C digital marketing, data, experience management, payments, ecommerce, and $9B traditional and digital payments ecosystem for 110+ clients, including managing P&L of over $150M. Modernized and revamped Hearst's proprietary CMS and front end supporting more than 600 million monthly visitors and 100+ global brands.

New York, Ny, Us

Oversaw and drove digital transformation for CDS Global, a marketing service provider to the media industry, providing commerce, marketing, subscription, fulfillment, call center, and business intelligence/analytics to over 100 publishers in the US and the UK. Within six months, asked to take on the CTO role, ensure engineering alignment with the transformational vision and introduce Agile as the SDLC. The team was originally more than 240 IT and Software development professionals. Oversaw global product management, user experience and design, performance analytics, and operations teams. Directed product strategy, product management, software engineering, UX design, sales engineering, product analytics, data science, customer support, and service delivery functions at CDS.

Us

Led rapid growth for plateaued rugged tablet manufacturer, with exit strategy as the end goal. Took on broad challenge that encompassed optimizing market presence, expanding product portfolio and channel program, and strengthening sales operations. Oversaw product and direct marketing specialists, and product and program managers. Drove strategic planning, product roadmap, quantitative research, and next-stage development initiatives.✔ Developed pioneering, Android-based rugged tablet, which drew record-breaking order volume for the organization and expanded current markets from military, oil and gas, and field service organizations, to Android tablet space. Played integral role in recapitalizing and listing company on Nasdaq, and subsequent acquisition by Zebra Technologies, a global leader within the tech space. Drove 100% growth in revenues from $10M to $20M within 14 months, and sales pipeline from $40M to $200M in six months.

Conway, Arkansas, Us

Accountable for $300M P&L and chartered with two primary objectives, building high-performing product management and engineering team that was market- and innovation-centric, and delivering data and identity management roadmap that would return product line to high growth. Guided and coached fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of ~200 product management, engineering, sales engineering, services delivery, and operations/solution architects.✔ Unveiled industry-first API and SaaS identity resolution product that significantly enhanced effectiveness of master data management, data analytics, computer science, and marketing offerings at higher profitability. Enabled expansion from marketing into IT by spurring concept and launch of several innovative new data and identity products, primarily highlighting sales, marketing, operations, data privacy, and identity management functionality for large B2C corporations and verticals including Retail, Financial Services, CPG, Media, and Insurance. Earlier career progression:Director - Product Management |Enterprise Services - Dell: Managed billion-dollar service portfolio and worked cross-functionally with the Professional Services, Deployment, Enterprise Support, and Product teams to identify, build, launch, and manage several new service offerings, primarily focused on driving enterprise growth. Director - Dell Professional Services: Recruited by Dell to help establish professional services group, building the Microsoft Practice from $0 to several hundred million dollars within a few years.